Call for Papers

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Details of dates, venues and speakers: congress poster

IASSID calls upon researchers, policy makers, practitioners and educators, family members and people with disabilities from across the Asia Pacific region and beyond to come together at Singapore to discuss and debate issues affecting people with disability in the Asia Pacific region. We want to ask and answer the question: how can we create a more inclusive society – in which people are ‘free to be themselves among others’ (cf Nirje, 1985)?

Preliminary Key Note Speakers include: Prof. Rune J. Simeonsson (University of North Carolina, USA), Prof. Shigeru Suemitsu (Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare, Japan), Prof. Glynis Murphy (University of Kent, UK), Assoc Prof Levan Lim & Dr Kenneth Poon (National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). Others to be confirmed.

The Australasian Association of Doctors in Developmental Disability Medicine (AADDM) will conduct their annual conference during the IASSID Congress and contribute papers.

The IASSID Academy on Education, Teaching and Research will host pre/post conference workshops. The IASSID Academy welcomes your suggestions concerning regional priorities to be addressed by these workshops.

The International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC) will host a stream of special interest papers.

The Asia Pacific Down Syndrome Federation will meet during the conference.

You are invited to submit abstracts for presentations addressing the conference theme, based on research activities and service initiatives in the areas of education, employment, accommodation, health care, ageing, community initiatives, sport, recreation and the arts.
Papers addressing community development and community capacity building are particularly welcome.

You are also invited to submit abstracts and proposals for Poster Presentations, Round Table Discussions, and Workshop / Tutorial Sessions.

Abstracts can be submitted on-line in the prescribed format by

For further information: www.iassid.org